158 GARDEN FLOWERS. 



tuberous roots. They grow in good garden soil, preferring 

 a good proportion of peat earth. Increased readily by offsets. 



E. albidum (whitish) ; hardy tuber ; 3 inches ; flowers white, 

 in April ; North America ; 1824. E. Americamun (American) ; 

 hardy tuber ; 3 inches ; flowers yellow, in April ; North Amer- 

 ica ; 1665. E. Dens-cants (Dog's-tooth) ; hardy tuber ; ^3 

 inches; flowers purplish or whitish, in March; Europe; 1596. 

 E. grandiflorum (large-flowered) ; hardy tuber ; 3 inches ; flow- 

 ers yellow, in April ; North America ; 1826. 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA. [Papaveraccae.] Hardy perennials, which 

 may be cultivated as annuals. The plants are procumbent, 

 and form a low dense branching mass, abundantly furnished 

 with large poppy-like flowers, much more showy than neat. 

 It is one of those flowers which always look untidy, and owes 

 its place in the garden to its bright color and large blos- 

 soms. The seed may be sown in early spring where it is to 

 grow, and, when the plants come up too close together, they 

 must be thinned out. The plant has a tap-root like a small 

 carrot. There may be two complete seasons of bloom ; for, 

 if the seed be sown in autumn, it will come up, and, unless 

 the frost be very severe, stand through the winter, and bloom 

 early. If the plants are allowed to shed their seed, the 

 place will be overrun as with a weed ; and, where it has once 

 been sown or planted, it will afterwards require only to be 

 thinned ; for hundreds of plants will come up. It makes a 

 very brilliant appearance in fine weather, and especially 

 when contrasted with the blue of the Convolvulus or Lark- 

 spur, and the scarlets and purples of other flowers. The 

 genus has been called Chryseis. 



E. Californica (California); hardy perennial; 18 inches; 

 flowers yellow and orange, or white, in June ; California; 1826. 

 A white-flowered variety of this is in cultivation ; and it is in- 

 deed probable that the plants called E. crocea and compacta are 

 new varieties of E. Californica. E. compacta (compact) ; hardy 



